The Universal Declaration on the Rights of Incarcerated Girls and Women (UDRIGW) was established to provide universal uniform definitions and standards regarding all matters pertaining to the incarceration of girls and women in any form of penal system or facility, including youth facilities, detention centres, post-release centres, probation & parole programs, community-residential facilities and transitional housing, particularly regarding the sex-based rights and treatment of incarcerated girls and women, and it should be used in addition to United Nations and State official rules and policies which meet the standards set forth herein.

 

The UDRIGW serves as a universal uniform set of standards of which, in order to achieve, states need to make necessary and crucial changes to better protect, support and value incarcerated girls & women. The UDRIGW can be used to form and strengthen other standards for legislation regarding incarcerated women, and regarding facilities that provide services for other vulnerable women (i.e.: domestic violence refuges, rape crisis centres, mental health facilities, women’s health clinics and services etc.).

 

The Universal Declaration on the Rights of Incarcerated Girls and Women is open for all governments and official bodies to endorse, ratify and implement.

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Supporters are welcome to send the declaration to their Members for Parliament and other political leaders, as well as related corporate and government bodies, and to related advocacy groups.